Perspectives on American book history
Subtitle: artifacts and commentary
By: edited by Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves.
Contributors: Casper, Scott E.; Chaison, Joanne D., 1944-; Groves, Jeffrey D., 1959-
Series: Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press; American Antiquarian Society; Center for the Book, Library of Congress
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amherst; Worcester, Mass; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Books and reading -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Book industries and trade -- Social aspects -- United States.; Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects -- United States.; Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States.; United States -- Intellectual life.
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Texts for the Times: An Introduction to Book History ROBERT A. GROSS I 2 Literacy and Reading in Puritan New England JILL LEPORE 17 3 Print and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century PATRICIA CRAIN 47 4 Publishing the American Revolution RUSSELL L. MARTIN 79 5 The Book Trade Transformed JEFFREY D. GROVES 109 6 Antebellum Reading Prescribed and Described SCOTT E. CASPER 135 7 Publishing an Emergent 'American" Literature SUSAN S. WILLIAMS 165 8 Northern and Southern Worlds of Print ALICE FAHS 195 9 Reshaping Publishing and Authorship in the Gilded Age NANCY COOK 223 10 Print Cultures in the American West JEN A. HUNTLEY-SMITH 255 11 Laboring Classes, New Readers, and Print Cultures ANN FABIAN 285 12 The Industrialization and Nationalization of American Periodical Publishing CHARLES JOHANNINGSMEIER 311 13 Print and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture TRYSH TRAVIS 339 14 Out of the Mainstream and into the Streets: Small Press Magazines, the Underground Press, Zines, and Artists' Books ELLEN GRUBER GARVEY 367 15 Newspapers since 1945 GLENN WALLACH 403 16 The Once and Future Book SCOTT E. CASPER, JOANNE D. CHAISON, AND JEFFREY D. GROVES 435 17 Resources for Studying American Book History: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography JOANNE D. CHAISON 441.